Lena Vakil
Founder & Director
FDS RCS, BDS Wales 1991 · GDC 66110
Minor Oral Surgery Specialist & Implant Expert WednesdayLena qualified from the University of Wales College of Medicine in 1991. She began her career in hospital-based oral and maxillofacial training and gained her Fellowship in Dental Surgery in 1993, joining the GDC Specialist Register in Oral Surgery in 2004. Over the years she has worked across many hospital settings, carrying out the full range of oral surgery procedures, and she has also run an oral surgery unit in Sydney, Australia. She has lectured at St Bartholomew's, the Royal London Hospital and Whipps Cross University Hospital, where she supervised postgraduates, and she completed her Postgraduate Certificate in Dental Education in 2017. In 1996 Lena established an oral surgery referral service in Docklands with Tower Hamlets PCT, with a referral base of around 30 practices. A member of the British Association of Oral Surgeons, she is currently completing a Diploma in Implant Dentistry at the Royal College of Surgeons (England).